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Dell_eted.
I rarely do this - this, being posting about practical and personal things-, but I have received so much grief from my recent (poor, I will add, in retrospect) choice for a new Dell laptop, namely the *XPS 9570*, that I already identify and sympathise with imaginary others that might be experiencing the same grief as me and want to reach out. I also would not post something like this for the extra reason, that I am not an expert on any of the following topics. But the fact alone that I had to go through these steps, just to make use of my equipment/investment, denotes that these might no longer be considered expert material for the present day consumer by the manufacturers. . . (although, I do feel I have lots to post about manufacturer responsibility, reliability, quality control, product life expectancy, and general priorities in life.) Finally and hopefully, it might prove helpful to get a fast, high level overview of the process, so that you might research more into each topic afterwards and follow actual expert advice.
So, imaginary twin, I hope it might benefit you, if you stumble upon this:
0) The trigger: If you are feeling like your laptop can boil your tea and burn-scar your desk along with it: be alarmed. That ain’t normal. 1) Take the test: Install a software for temperature monitoring. Look online and you’ll find plenty free options. I went for ‘Core Temp’ because it was tiny, cute and customizable. 2) Confirm your fears: If indeed you see higher than normal temperatures on idle (depends on the build, but let’s call it anywhere between 50-80°C) or temperatures frequently close to 100°C when stressed, you need to take action. I saw spikes of 97 at start-up with only a few start-up services, averages at 85 and was throttling all the time while working. Action means: 3) Gettting a cooling pad with fans: Dell should hand these out at purchase time. My laptop has the vents on the bottom and a tiny distance from the desk it is placed thanks to low ridges on the chassis. I can’t see how this air venting system was ever supposed to work without a pad. Even one with no fans would help. I saved 3-4°C’s with this. 4) Undervolting: Before getting out the screwdrivers for the hard part, let’s change a few settings to see how the situation can be improved on the soft side. Undervolting means sending less voltage to the processor and graphics chipset and is possible only on models that allow for it by the manufacturer(yeah, you can be *that* unlucky). Again, there are free to use options and I chose the Intel eXtreme Tuning Utility. You can temper the values until you blue-screen. I was more reserved and stayed happy at -0.150V for the core unit and -0.70V for the graphics chip. I saw significant improvement and much less thermal throttling, but, to my mild disappointment, overall temps still stayed pinched. *Please keep in mind that every now and then, the settings get reset and need reapplying. I have observed that the reset is related to Dell system updates, but cannot confirm. Also, I do not know if this is the case only with the Xtune software, but would expect not. In any case, when they get reset, you ll soon feel the heat, so no chances it can slip your attention. 5) Repasting: removing and reapplying the thermal conductor paste applied on your processor and GPU unit to direct heat to the heatsink. Normally, this is something one needs to do anyway after a few years of use, since the thermal conductivity of the material decreases with age (gets clunkier too). But for new laptops, you might hope that it has been sloppily applied at the factory and that reapplying will improve things. Many useful guides out there that demonstrate the details of how this can be done, links below. 6) Adding thermal pads on the MOSFETs: It proves that processor/GPU are not the main heat sources in the XPS 9570! The volt regulator module that powers them causes huge overheats. Get some low conductivity thermal pads, stack em high until they touch the chassis (which is really hard to tell, I went with 3 layers of 1.5mm) and now you can hope to use the chassis as an heatsink (boosted with extra cooling from the fan-base).
Ta-tan! I have no further experiences to share.
If you are like me, you bought this or a similar model being a long, hard Dell fan, and basing your decision on the quality reputation that Dell enjoy(ed?) and proved on all the previous models you have had, plus the excellent customer support service. I was immensely surprised to find out that: - it is not my instance of the XPS 9570 that was overheating/faulty, but the whole class itself! :O - it is not just the XPS 9570 that has a faulty design, but previous models too! :O This is the third (I believe) addition to a series of overheating laptops that Dell has released trying to pack much computational power in a very thin container.
The fact that this issue has been known, not addressed, and on the contrary, repeated -> my faith is revoked and the hard lesson, that illustrates how outdated some of my mentalities are, is: CROSS-CHECK first.
P.S. While you are at it, please enjoy this wonderful video that is -both visually and audibly- a celebration of my troubles: link P.S.2 From my research, I found these are the most explanatory articles about the whole process: -UltraBookReview -NoteBookCheck
P.S.3 When I started my search, I found this video useful: $12 Hack To Boost Your Laptop Performance!
P.S.4 Don't bother with Dell forums about this. Just saving your time.
Alan Perlis -was? is?. . . I’ll go with is- *is* one of those (rare) people with the heart of an artist and the head of a scientist. P.S. Exposed and available to us in written form, to meet and read and enjoy in our very present_ _ _ which I hope justifies the “is”.
Harness the power of custom programming to increase your AutoCAD productivity.
Highly suggested website for anyone (very old-fashioned, obviously) interested in scripting in AutoCAD.
Succinct, clear, clean, well-organised, still maintained and with numerous open source code examples.
P.S. I picked up more than a few tips reading source files, especially on consistency and documentation . . .
Under a microscope, even a toothbrush can be a work of art.
As if Atlas Obscura didn’t travel us to enough places.

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Every once in a while I’ll see a tutorial online or a paper that talks about specular. And it will have a line like “Some materials such as cloth and cardboard are pure diffuse surfaces with no specular”. This is a lie. Every object in the real world has specular, even good old cloth and cardboard. I took these with my homebrew polarized lighting setup. Since I was holding the polarizer manually, the separation isn’t perfect, but seems to work well enough.
Everything is shiny.
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The ability to capture complex root structures or gnarly chunks of trees from a forest is one of the most exciting developments in visual effects and game production over the past few years. With photorealistic visuals appearing in AAA games as well as indie titles, the technology has changed what we thought was possible. When …
A short news piece (a teaser rather) from SpeedTree software manufacturer, bringing two very dear subjects together: Photogrammetry & Procedural Modeling for plant life. It remains to be seen how which photogrammetric outputs they integrate, in which format, at what stage of the process (and how!) - keep an ear on the ground!

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Beauty.
You’ll know it when you hear it!
P.S. words cannot describe how much it used to mean.

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